Goodreads asked Kate Darroch:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Kate Darroch My most recent book, not yet released, is Death in Rome. Like my last book, Death on the Istanbul Express, it "grew like Topsy". I was originally intending to write a road-trip short story for my Readers Club.
I wrote the outline.
It was a short story length, so I began to write the story.
And the villains from my first book, Death in Paris, popped up and shouldered their way into the road-trip story! And they insisted on introducing us all to their cohorts, a bunch of villains we hadn't met yet.
So suddenly I had over 10,000 words of Villain-write, and my poor heroine, amateur sleuth Màiri, hadn't gotten to say a word yet!
This wasn't a short story, it was a book.
So I wrote the book.
And at the end, lo and behold, poor Lianna was once again in trouble!
That poor girl is just a magnet for trouble...
So now I'm writing Death in Rome, which was never supposed to be part of Màiri and Lianna's saga at all - they were supposed to be in Istanbul by now! But they're not.. and if they are ever to get there, first they have to get out of all the trouble they're in right now.
So that's why I'm writing Death in Rome. Our friends Màiri and Lianna need to get to Istanbul. Wish them luck!

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